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FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Or perhaps, amidst a particularly challenging calculus problem, you’ve questioned how this abstract world of numbers and symbols could possibly influence your future career? College and Mathematics: Challenges The Complexity Cliff Remember the first time you looked at a calculus problem in college? Well, you’re not alone.
STEMe
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Quantitative traders routinely use highly complex mathematics, such as stochastic calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, and discrete mathematics to create these models. Nevertheless, the career is a highly interesting and lucrative one for those fascinated by mathematics and its applications in the finance world.
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Futurum
JUNE 28, 2022
Machine learners use a mix of mathematics and computer science to develop and test their algorithms. I like that machine learning combines two of my favourite subjects, math and computer science, to solve real-life problems in an unprecedented way.”. WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO BECOME A COMPUTER SCIENTIST?
PCS Edventures
MARCH 4, 2020
Calculus , which calculates rates of change and infinites. Science, technology, engineering and arts careers often rely upon at least one of these math specializations, so jobs with a math focus are often talked about under the other STEAM categories. (The Algebra , which incorporates unknown variables into arithmetic equations.
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 22, 2023
It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). “Lick” Licklider —who persuaded Ed to join BBN to “teach them about computers”. Nowadays we’d call it the trie (or prefix tree) data structure. But his name shows up from time to time.
Maydm
JUNE 11, 2021
And so being able to just get some great people at the table, some of the amazing sponsors that we have, and I would say the successes have really been at this point, having students who worked with us, you know, back in 2016 to now see them in college and pursuing computer science. I’m a prospective computer science major there.”
Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
In “quant finance”—which, yes, coincidentally sounds a bit like “quantum”—it’s for example common to estimate prices from looking at the effects of all possible paths, say approximated by Monte Carlo.). And the same issue arose for Alonzo Church’s lambda calculus (introduced around 1930). One is so-called Böhm trees.
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